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Re: Converting the masses

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From: Mcirvin
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 15:25
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palmer@sfu.ca (Leigh Palmer) writes:

>In article <130889@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> dk@imager (Dave Knapp) writes:

> By the way, I've never
>been asked by a physics student why a sufficiently fast-moving rocket
>ship (or other particle) doesn't "behave like a black hole gravita-
>tionally". It does behave like a gravitating mass having the relativistic
>mass, of course.

It doesn't act at *all* like a gravitating mass at rest whose rest
mass equals the total energy of the rocket, either in its response
to or its production of gravitational fields.

-- 
Matt McIrvin   mcirvin@husc.harvard.edu   Long live short .sigs
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